George Washington to Comte de Rochambeau, 24 January 1781
George Washington to Comte de Rochambeau
New Windsor [New York] January 24, 1781. Sends news of the New Jersey mutiny. States that Count de Custine1 and the Marquis de Laval2 will tell Rochambeau of Benedict Arnold’s “descent in Virginia.”
Df, in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
1. Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine-Sarrek, was a brigadier general in the French army in America.
2. Anne Alexandre Marie Sulpice Joseph de Montmorency, Marquis de Laval, was a colonel of the Regiment Bourbonnais of the French army in America.